Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

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Mendeley
The reference manager and beyond
Michaela Kurschildgen, Customer Consultant Elsevier, m.kurschildgen@elsevier.com
27th September 2018

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What is Mendeley?

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What is Mendeley
Academic Reference Manager and a workflow tool supporting
researcher needs…
Reference
management
Research
network
Promote your work.
Connect and
collaborate
with millions of
researches
worldwide
Datasets
Store, share and
cite datasets with
one secure
online repository
Careers
Search for
science and
technology jobs
in institutions
worldwide
Funding
Find the best
funding for your
research,
bookmark your
favorites and stay
up to date
Collect, read,
organize and
cite all of your
research from
one library

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Accessible at any time, anywhere and from any device.
Mobile
iOS & Android
Desktop
Windows, Mac & Linux
Online
All major browsers

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A growing network…
8.7+ million registered users, increasing at a rate of 33% YoY
since 2014
>1.250K monthly active users
>200M references in the crowd-sourced catalogue
>740K collaboration groups
A community of 4,500 advisors running 600 on-campus
workshops and events yearly
850+ Institutions and 10+ consortia trust and subscribe to
Mendeley Institutional Edition

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Reference Management
Cite as you write Annotate as you read Curate & share reading lists
Collecting &
organize content
(universal importer)
Access research anywhere
Maximize your investment
in Elsevier

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Research Network
Reputation management
with research profiles
Make new connections
and promote research
Create and join groups
Collaborate with
colleagues worldwide
Follow the impact of
publications
Stay up to date
(feed & suggest)

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Research Network – Stats for researchers (within your profile)
Easy Access to Researchers Metrics
• Easy Profile Creation with Scopus
Author or Orchid ID
• Scopus Statistics
• Citations
• H-index
• ScienceDirect Statistics: Views statistics
• Mendeley Statistics: Overall readers
• Newsflo: Researcher Media Mentions

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Research data management with Mendeley Data
Mendeley Data is a secure cloud-based repository where
researchers can store their data, ensuring it is easy to
share, access and cite. It also complies with funders’
requirements for storage and distribution of data
Upload, access and browse datasets anywhere, for free

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When talking about data, we talk about…
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All forms of research data,
which includes everything
needed to reproduce and
reuse
Raw data Processed data
Machine &
environment settings
Protocols, methods,
workflows
Scripts, analyses, algorithms

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data.mendeley.com
Data Repository
Store results in a trusted data repository
Store up to 10 GB of data per
dataset in many formats
Describe how experiments
can be reproduced
Long-term storage: never lose data
Link back to protocols
Create DOI
for Citation
(or university
prefix)
Keep track of
versions of dataset
Metadata:
Dublin Core and Google Science Datasets markup

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Careers – Science and Technology jobs
Open positions
worldwide
Job alerts
Career advice
Mendeley Careers service, which selects thousands of relevant science and technology job postings from
the leading job boards, academic institutions, company employers, and recruitment agencies
across the world
https://blog.mendeley.com/2018/04/09/finding-your-next-job-or-funding-opportunity-has-never-been-easier/

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Mendeley Funding
Mendeley funding is the largest, free
funding discovery tool of curated
funder and funding opportunity data. It
helps researchers find relevant funding
opportunities they wouldn’t have found
otherwise.
Around 20.000 opportunities across + 3,000 organizations

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Scopus and ScienceDirect export

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How to start with Mendeley
1. Register on www.mendeley.com
2. Download Mendeley Desktop
3. Install “Web importer tool”
4. Install Word plugin
Word processors that are currently supported by Mendeley Desktop are:
Word for windows 2013 or later. / Word for Mac 2011 and 2016(64 bit) as of 1.17.9 / LibreOffice 5.2

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Stay up to date
Keeping in touch with Mendeley’s ongoing developments
Get new tips and stay connected by visiting
our blog at blog.mendeley.com
Read our guides and watch our tutorial
videos at resources.mendeley.com

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www.elsevier.com/mendeley
Thank you!